Sri Lanka, sentence 371
From Wikipedia, «Sri Lanka», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In the same year, the group published Out of the Silence, which documents evidence of torture in Sri Lanka and demonstrates that the practice has continued long after the end of the civil war in 2009.
Who acts: group, Silence · What happens: publish, evidence, demonstrate, continue · To what, where: Silence, Sri, practice
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sri Lanka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (group, Silence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 published | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 published | nsubj |
| 8 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 12 Silence | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Silence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Silence | det |
| 12 | Silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 published | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 evidence | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 evidence | nsubj |
| 15 | documents | document | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 evidence | compound |
| 16 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Silence | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 torture | case |
| 18 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 evidence | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Sri | case |
| 20 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 evidence | nmod |
| 21 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sri | flat |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 demonstrates | cc |
| 23 | demonstrates | demonstrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 published | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 continued | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 practice | det |
| 26 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 continued | aux |
| 28 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 demonstrates | ccomp |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 continued | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 continued | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 war | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 war | det |
| 35 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 war | amod |
| 36 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 end | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 2009 | case |
| 38 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 war | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past | the group | the Silence and documents evidence | year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | evidence | the Silence and documents evidence | Sri | of torture | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | demonstrate | present | the group not said here | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | continue | present · perfect · passive | the practice | after the end of the civil war in 2009 | long property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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